In the afternoon, Tang Xiaoxiao entrusted the child to her in-laws, and followed Peng Yu to Front Street.

Qianjie is a typical street in the old Beijing market, and most of the people who live here are old residents, and few houses are sold out.

"The owner of this house is Grandma Sheng, her son went to Hong Kong City many years ago, isn't it open now, her son wants to take her over to care for the elderly, so he plans to sell the house." Along the way, Peng Yu explained the situation to her.

Tang Xiaoxiao followed Peng Yu to Grandma Sheng's house, Grandma Sheng's house is a two-story courtyard, and the first floor into the courtyard is a patio.

Not to mention, Tang Xiaoxiao quite likes the layout of this courtyard, which has a bit of Jiangnan style.

"You are the sister Peng Xiaozi said was going to buy a house?" At this time, a delicate old woman came down from upstairs, and a middle-aged man kept supporting her.

"Yes, grandma, my name is Tang Xiaoxiao."

Grandma Sheng looked at her and nodded, "If you like this house, just make a price." ”

"Huh?" Tang Xiaoxiao looked at the old man with a surprised expression, and then looked at the middle-aged man beside her.

"That's right." The man smiled embarrassedly, "I went to Hong Kong City a few years ago, and you know that it was impossible to contact at that time, but now that the reform and opening up has passed, I will come back to pick up my mother to go to the elderly, and I have to leave after booking tomorrow's ticket." ”

"We have been releasing news about this house for a month, and it wasn't until Xiaoyu brought us the news yesterday that you want to buy it, and it's not convenient to come back now, my mother is also old, if you are willing to buy it, we will go through the formalities in a while."

Grandma Sheng and her son had already planned to leave the house deserted here, but Tang Xiaoxiao appeared, so they really didn't care about the price.

"I really like this house, but I don't know how much better the price is." Tang Xiaoxiao was a little embarrassed.

After all, there are very few houses bought and sold now, and it is difficult to say a reasonable price, most of them are bids from homeowners, and it is not worth buying a house.

In the end, Tang Xiaoxiao bought the house for a thousand dollars, and together with the furniture in the house, both parties were very satisfied.

After completing the formalities, because Grandma Sheng's mother and son have to stay for another night tonight, they will give her the key tomorrow.

"The aunt at the end of the alley is a military wife like my sister, but her man died more than ten years ago." On the way back, Peng Yu talked to Tang Xiaoxiao.

"Do they have children?" She asked.

Peng Yu shook his head, "But Aunt Xie has adopted several children, all of whom are unhealthy children. ”

From Peng Yu's mouth, Tang Xiaoxiao learned that not long after Aunt Xie and her husband got married, her husband went to the border, and a year later, the news came that her husband had died.

Her husband is an orphan, Aunt Xie has his pension, and she is a worker at the grain station, and there are many people who are interested in her, but she has never remarried.

One day, Aunt Xie picked up a little girl on the way from work, and after looking for a long time but couldn't find the parents of the little girl, Aunt Xie simply took it back and raised it as her own child.

When the little girl grew up, Aunt Xie found out that the child was a little demented, and went to the hospital for an examination only to find out that the child was mentally handicapped.

Aunt Xie didn't dislike it, and still took the child home.

Later, one day, when Aunt Xie went out to work, she found a basket at the door, and a newborn baby was sleeping in it.

Later, she adopted a total of six such children until the state set up a children's welfare home.

However, because of her relationship with these children, Aunt Xie did not send these children to a welfare home, but relied on her meager salary and her husband's pension to maintain the family.

Tang Xiaoxiao was very touched by Aunt Xie's story, and she helped many orphans in later generations, including children in social welfare institutions.

Every time she saw these children, she was not moved, like these children who were born with disabilities or mental retardation, most of them were called Tang children in later generations.

Especially in the early days of the country's establishment, the marriage of close relatives was not so strict, and the marriage of close relatives in rural areas was the norm, and crippled children and mentally handicapped children abounded.

Tang Xiaoxiao asked Peng Yu to follow her back to her home and asked him to wait in the yard for a while.

When she came out again, she was carrying a basket in her hand, which contained three catties of meat, a few catties of white flour and some candy and snacks that she had just taken out of the space.

"You help my sister send it to Aunt Xie." She handed the basket to Peng Yu.

More than ten years have passed, raising six children, it is estimated that Aunt Xie's husband's pension has long been spent, and these things can allow them to have a lively New Year and eat dumplings.

"Sister, I'm not telling you this to let you help them, I just want to say that Aunt Xie is a good person." Peng Yu was a little at a loss with his things.

"You know, there is no shortage of this thing in my sister's house." With Peng Yu's intelligence, how could he not know how the income of the wonton shop was.

"That, that's okay, I'll thank you for those children." Peng Yu bowed to her and returned to Front Street with the basket.

He knocked on the door of Aunt Xie's house, who was not yet forty years old, but looked almost fifty.

"Why did Uko get here?" Aunt Xie let Peng Yu in, he didn't go in, just handed the basket to Aunt Xie.

"What is this? Didn't you already bring chicken cakes to the kids yesterday? "Aunt Xie didn't answer, after all, the conditions of Peng Yu's family are not good, and he still has a paralyzed father and a pair of younger siblings to raise.

After Peng Yu learned about Aunt Xie's family a year ago, he occasionally brought snacks for the children, especially after working at the wonton shop.

It was because he came to deliver the chicken cake yesterday that he learned that Grandma Sheng's house was going to be sold.

"This is what Sister Xiaoxiao asked me to send, she is also a military sister-in-law, and she is a good person." After Peng Yu put the basket on the ground, he turned around and ran.

If he said more, Aunt Xie would definitely let him take the things back.

The next day, Tang Xiaoxiao came over to get the house key, and just sent Grandma Sheng's mother and son away, and when she locked the door, she saw an aunt looking at her with a smile.

"You are the Sister Xiaoxiao that Xiaoyu said, right?" The person who came was Aunt Xie.

"Are you Aunt Xie?" Tang Xiaoxiao guessed.

"It's me, I just want to thank you in person, and return your basket." Aunt Xie handed her the basket.

The basket was covered with a piece of cloth, and it was still a little heavy, and she lifted the basket to see that there were some glutinous rice cakes and some red window flowers in it.

"The glutinous rice is made from the glutinous rice distributed by the grain station a few days ago, and the window grilles are cut by the children." Aunt Xie said with a smile.

"Thank you." Tang Xiaoxiao did not refuse, she knew that if she refused, Aunt Xie and the children would be sad.

"Can I go see them?" She asked.

"Of course you can, but aren't you afraid? They ......" Aunt Xie looked at her.

"I'm not afraid." She shook her head and followed Aunt Xie to her house.